Meet Nicole Maguire (AKA: Nicole)

Below is one of the OTE mini-profiles, a five-question feature allowing readers to get to know a little more about commenters in the On The Edge blog community. Over the course of the next two-plus weeks, you will meet two-dozen OTE readers. You’ll learn the basics (name, age, where they live), and more. We had more than 30 questions and each reader was given five. No two readers had all the same questions. These are running regularly until July 11 when I return to work.

What was/is your nickname? Where did that come from?
I seriously have a ridiculous amount of nicknames. “Panza” is the oldest since it was my maiden name. The most popular has been different variations of “Ninja” because I’m stealthy, efficient, I know a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff, and apparently I wear black a lot.

Would you rather be able to complete a marathon or be a millionaire?
A millionaire – I could make a difference in many lives as opposed to fulfilling a selfish goal, and I’m an UGLY runner.

If you had to be a surrogate for Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods or Jesse James, who would you choose and why?
NOT Arnold, for sheer fear of the size the baby might be. 8 lbs is where I draw the line. None of them seem deserving of more children to hurt so I’ll pick Tiger as most likely to change.

Who outside your family had the biggest influence on your life?
Chuck Norris, you may not judge him as you may not judge me, just the thought of it will cause your mind to implode on itself.
Seriously though, all my answers were related people.

If you were to blog, what would you write about?
Anything and everything. I love learning and sharing and analyzing and sympathizing and arguing. I have never been able to exclusively lump any part of myself into any one category and I wouldn’t be an honest writer if I limited my words and thoughts to fit someone else’s criteria.

25 Responses

Love your questions and answers. But I have to wonder who would pick being able to complete a marathon over a million bucks. I guess if I was paralyzed or already had a billion in the bank. Otherwise that’s just crazy talk.

You wrote down some good answers. If you had a blog, I would read it for sure. The ‘Ninja’ nickname is hilarious- my piano teacher’s college friend was on Wipeout and the nickname he gave himself was ‘Ginga Ninja’ because he had red hair. I guess on Wipeout you have to make up a nickname for yourself- the hosts don’t technically make them up on their own.